NET NEUTRALITY

The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a pre-consultation paper, setting the ground for the debate on net neutrality in India. The paper, which was released today, pos...

Wouldn't it be great if you get back the data that you use? Gigato is addre ing the problem of your data pack exhaustion by offering you free data in return of using some apps. Offering free data whic...

Free Basics sought to provide internet access for people who are unable to afford it. It was an opportunity for the underprivileged to come to par with everyone else. So what problem did TRAI have with that? Instead of shelving the whole idea, could they not have negotiated and found a common ground with Facebook?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday slammed company board member Marc Andree en's tweet that seemed to suggest that colonialism was good for India. I want to respond to Marc Andree en's comments...

In 2016, the fault lines in media and entertainment will get exaggerated like never before. It's not a full-blown earthquake yet but the ground is shaking and weaker business models may well collapse. Mature companies with revenue momentum will survive, even grow, but the world as we know it, have known it for 20 years now, will mutate into something quite unrecognisable.

The access to Internet, however partial, has the power to transform. Surely the poor who cannot afford to buy a digital connection today have a right to expect to receive a poor man's version of it in charity without you and me, the digital haves, poking into it.

While neutrality of the internet, and thereby, information, is definitely the best position, practicality and viability should take precedence in order to help remote or marginalised communities to surmount a decades-old logjam.

Unle you've completely shut yourself off from social media (in which case, good for you!), you must have seen Facebook's wide push for Free Basics, urging its users to send a me age to India's teleco...

As many as 60 faculty members of India's premier science institutions -- Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) -- have i ued a joint statement sl...

Facebook has sneakily--without any announcement-- launched its Internet.Org service acro India, asking people to send an automated email to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), letting them...

When AIB put up their first video on Net Neutrality and all that support poured in, we all thought that we dodged a bullet. Well as it turns out, we didn't. The bullet ricocheted and is headed strai...

Internet.org is a collection of apps and services hand-picked by you and your partners for Sukha Bhai and Chameli Mausi and little Ram. You decide that they do not watch YouTube, not use Google, never access Wikileaks. Of course they will have Facebook and services you think are fit for them. You will show them a walled garden with the key firmly in your hand. And you will argue you are doing this for the greater good. We do not doubt your intentions but we are horrified by the implications.

NEW DELHI – A high-powered committee of the department of telecom, tasked with making recommendations on how India should treat net neutrality and regulate the internet, has pa ed the buck on contenti...

On 20 March 2015, a giant roar rented the air at the 5,000-seater National Sports Club of India (NSCI) stadium in Worli, Mumbai. The second edition of the YouTube Fan Fest was underway. The event feat...